So many thanks again from everyone involved in this case but particularly from DSD and NBV. They have truly been heartened by the support

We can confirm that in the absence of any unexpected and compelling response from the Parole Board to our pre action correspondence, we intend to launch judicial review proceedings against the Parole Board next week.

Today CWJ is launching a CrowdJustice crowdfunding page to raise funds so two victims can legally challenge the decision to release John Worboys. This is a critical case about taking violence against women seriously and improving state accountability to ensure that victims are adequately protected. 

TODAY, two victims of the ‘Black Cab rapist’, John Worboys, launched a legal challenge to find out the reasons Worboys was granted parole and to challenge the decision itself. A crowdfund has been launched to support the victim’s legal efforts to overturn the decision to release.

Two claims have been issued, one on behalf of DSD and NBV, two of Worboys victims and one on behalf of the Mayor of London.  In addition an application has been lodged today by News Group Newspapers Ltd with a request to also be joined in the proceedings. 

‘DSD’ and ‘NBV’, the two claimants in the case against the metropolitan police arising from their abject failures to investigate the original multiple allegations made against Worboys* have expressed their shock and dismay at the latest failures by criminal justice agencies.

Early next year the High Court will consider a ground breaking legal challenge brought by several women challenging the criminalisation and continued punishment of prostituted women.  If successful, it will bring to an end a shameful practice in modern day Britain, where those who are victims of abuse and exploitation continue to be labelled and punished for something that was in a large part done to them

This week Harriet Wistrich lodged a complaint of institutionalised discrimination against women under the Optional protocol of CEDAW.

Seven women psychologically and sexually abused by undercover policemen infiltrating UK protest groups have lodged a complaint to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

New report on the detention of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence

On 27 July the Divisional Court1 will hear an application from the Government to stay a ground-breaking legal challenge of its policy in relation to the retention and disclosure of criminal convictions arising from soliciting offences.

School X - a co-educational, Muslim voluntary aided school in the UK - segregates its pupils based on their gender. From the age of 9 to 16, Muslim boys and girls are segregated for everything - during lessons and all breaks, activities and school trips.